WULVERGHEM-LINDENHOEK ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY
Heuvelland
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via the Lille Gate, and take the signs for Armentieres (N365), after 900m just before the railway crossing turn right onto Kemmelseweg (N331). Continue to the village of Kemmel and 2km past this village turn left onto Hooghofstraat, the cemetery is a further 1.5km along this road on the right. Access and parking are easy.
This cemetery was at first known as Wulverghem Dressing Station Cemetery. It was started in December 1914 by four battalions of the 5th Division. It continued to be used until June 1917, and was then opened again in September and October 1918.
At the armistice the cemetery had just 162 graves, and was then greatly enlarged by burials from the surrounding battlefields, which now form Plots 2-5. These plots represent burials from the whole of the war, with many of the 1918 burials having fallen in the fighting at Kemmel and in the final advance.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 843; Canada 54; Australia 35; New Zealand 69; South Africa 9; Total Burials: 1010
394587 Rifleman
Harold William Martin
9th Bn. London Regiment
(Queen Victoria's Rifles)
04/09/1918, aged 19.
Son of Charles David and Elizabeth Ann Martin, of 4, Brunswick Rd., Bexleyheath, Kent.
Plot I. D. 34
Picture courtesy of Kim Towler, Rifleman Martin has no known family left to remember him and is now forever remembered on our Roll of Honour
200236 Serjeant
James Harwood MM
1st/4th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
25/09/1918, aged 22.
Son of Henry and Sarah Harwood, of Orchard Place, Arundel, Sussex. He received his MM for action at Beersheba, Palestine November 1917.
Plot II. C. 16.
Picture courtesy of Great, great, great nephew, Simon Whittle.
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